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Web 2.0 Ecosystem

March 31, 2007 | 2 Comments

Nod down the avenue

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Will It Flush?

March 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

Flushing is fun. Pick an item.

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Posted by toddand | Filed Under Advertising, Humor, Marketing, Technology, Video

What We Call The News

March 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

What We Call the News | Send To Friends | Funny Animations at JibJab

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12 Ways to Pimp Your Office

March 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Chief Happiness Officer suggests 12 ways to pimp your office.

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The Beat of the Blog

March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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Power 150 Goes Global With Automation

March 19, 2007 | 15 Comments

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I’m thrilled to announce that the Power 150 ranking of top marketing blogs today received another extreme makeover.

Thanks to the very generous efforts of Mark Woodman, the founder of the technology how-to blog TechBrew, the Power 150 is now scripted to automagically calculate and order the top marketing blogs using my original algorithm. Mark also gave the HTML code a minor facelift. Check out Mark’s case study post at TechBrew. Thanks a ton, Mark!

Equally exciting, TechBrew’s automation enables the list to expand globally to include all English-language marketing blogs.

Over the next several weeks, I hope to receive many reader suggestions for marketing blogs from Canada, UK, Australia, etc. In the meantime, I’ll be doing my own research and adding new blogs as I find them. To kick-start the global ranking, I’ve added Servant of Chaos, russell davies, BrandTarot, Better Communication Results, adliterate, and PR Blogger. Still a long way to go but, ultimately, the Power 150’s resourcefulness will be magnified with the expansion to all English-language marketing blogs.

In honor of the new global expansion, the logo has been modified and new “grab a graphic” options have been added.

In February, the Power 150 added the “kitchen sink” with the help of RSS expert and CleverClogs author Marjolein Hoekstra. The kitchen sink is a Grazr widget that allows users to search and subscribe by keyword, browse a combined “river of news” feed, or openly explore feed-to-feed.

The search and subscribe feature oozes coolness. After you search, you can grab the custom-keyword RSS feed URL and monitor when your keyword is mentioned by blogs in the Power 150.

Lastly, don’t forget that all this can also be found at power150.com. And be sure to check out techbrew.net for all your “informative geekery on software and technology,” plus a cool labs section with free net resources.

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Posted by toddand | Filed Under Advertising, Blogging, Marketing, News, Public Relations, Technology

Hillary 1984

March 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Let the political video war begin…

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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Presentation Training

March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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The State of the News Media 2007

March 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

The State of the News Media 2007 was just released by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), a non-political, non-partisan research institute that is part of the Pew Research Center in Washington. The 160,000-word report has oodles of data, trends, forecasts, charts and tables. Here are 10 bite-size pieces I nibbled off in my first viewing:

1 // “On an average day, roughly 51 million people still buy a newspaper, and 124 million in all still read one. But the print newspaper is unquestionably ailing. Circulation is declining. Advertising is flat. As Warren Buffett said at his annual investor’s meeting in May 2006 newspapers appear to have entered a period of ‘protracted decline.’”

2 // “The key question is whether the investment community sees the news business as a declining industry or an emerging one in transition.”

3 // “Blogging is on the brink of a new phase that will probably include scandal, profitability for some, and a splintering into elites and non-elites over standards and ethics.”

4 // “After a decade of growth, the online news audience for now has reached a plateau, despite the increase in the number of people with high-speed connections. One reason may be new technologies, such as RSS, podcasting and mobile phones, which may not get added in the audience count. “

5 // “[Newspaper] circulation fell even faster than in 2005 — down 2.8% daily and 3.4% Sunday for the six months ending in September compared to that period a year earlier.”

6 // “In 2006, the online advertising market appeared headed for yet another record-setting year. Through the first nine months, ad revenue reached roughly $12.1 billion, an increase of roughly 36% over the first nine months of 2005. By year-end, eMarketer projected it would reach $16.4 billion, a 31% increase.”

7 // “Citizen journalism, in short, is becoming less something that is dismissed as the amateur hour before the professionals take the stage and more something that enriches the conversation.”

8 // “The total evening network news audience now stands at around 26 million, down about a million from the year before. It has now dropped by about 1 million a year for the last 25 years.”

9 // “Despite the avalanche of new listening options, nearly all Americans still listen to the standard AM/FM radio — now eight decades old — at some point during the course of a week.”

0 // “News is not a corporate product. It was not invented in a laboratory or an R&D department. It evolved out of popular sentiment, out of political movement and out of a human instinct for knowledge and awareness. And its greatest leaps forward came from risk-takers who were often discounted because their vision broke with convention, and because their tastes ran in sometimes contradictory directions, the likes of Ted Turner, or Joseph Pulitzer, or Adolph Ochs.”

For a more in-depth analysis, including an interview with the PEJ’s director, check out Mark Glaser’s post at MediaShift.

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